[Imc] global chat report

[Paul Riismandel]

Shew... everyone's still getting the kinks worked out of chatting via IRC, 
but a worthwhile experience.

If you think sometimes the U-C IMC meetings move sloooowwww.... anyway...

The global communication group/network is working on having a way of 
distributing proposals for action and policy.  I believe a decision was 
made to create a listserv just for floating proposals, sans discussions.

Further,  there is a proposal for setting the ground rules for the addition 
of new IMCs to be found here: 
http://global.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=143&group=webcast

A popular method floated for making global decisions was to have each local 
IMC consider these proposals and bring back comments, changes, etc. to the 
global.  This method was not fully decided (at least I don't think, 
sometimes it's hard to follow things on IRC).

And, after 2+ hours, that's about it.  I'll be glad to teach others how to 
use IRC once we're online at the space.  The next global IMC communications 
meeting is 2/25 at 2pm CST--these times will change in order to accommodate 
world-wide schedules fairly.  I plan to attend this one, perhaps Zach, who 
was also in on  this one, will too.

A final note--a nice byproduct of this meeting was the change to have 
side-chats with a former Urbana-ite (Ayleen Crotty) who's now working with 
the Portland, OR IMC, and other folks, known only by nicknames, who've 
passed through Urbana through the years who are also hooked up into this 
crazy IMC movement.

--Paul